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Favourite Christmas Carol.

  • 17-12-2016 11:53am
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,076 ✭✭✭✭


    What's you favourite top five (or top ten) Christmas carols?

    Too many to put in a poll.

    Christmas-choir-singing-kids-Getty-Images-Matt-Cardy.jpg

    Here's a few of mine to kick off ...

    In The Bleak Midwinter
    O Holy Night
    O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
    Away In A Manger
    The Holly And The Ivy
    Coventry Carol
    Sussex Carol


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18,268 ✭✭✭✭uck51js9zml2yt


    The original of hark the herald angels.
    Especially when it gets to the line "he came to give them second birth"


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,434 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    Cradled in a manger, meanly:

    Cradled in a manger, meanly,
    Laid the Son of Man His head;
    Sleeping His first earthly slumber
    Where the oxen had been fed.
    Happy were those shepherds listening
    To the holy angel's word;
    Happy they within that stable
    Worshipping their infant Lord.

    Happy all who hear the message
    Of His coming from above;
    Happier still who hail His coming,
    And with praises greet His love.
    Blessed Savior, Christ most holy,
    In a manger Thou didst rest;
    Canst Thou stoop again, yet lower,
    And abide within my breast?

    Evil things are there before Thee;
    In the heart, where they have fed,
    Wilt Thou pitifully enter,
    Son of Man, and lay Thy head?
    Enter, then, O Christ most holy;
    Make a Christmas in my heart;
    Make a heaven of my manger:
    It is heaven where Thou art.

    And to those who never listened
    To the message of Thy birth,
    Who have winter, but no Christmas
    Bringing them Thy peace on earth,
    Send to these the joyful tidings;
    By all people, in each home,
    Be there heard the Christmas anthem;
    Praise to God, the Christ has come!

    Especially the last verse. I can happily ignore the contradiction of being an atheist and liking this carol.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 9,795 Mod ✭✭✭✭Manach


    Back when Classic TV was running this was a favourite:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,239 ✭✭✭Thinkingaboutit




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 732 ✭✭✭Hesh's Umpire


    I heard "Gaudete" last night. Very unusual, chant like piece of music.

    And (according to Wikipedia) the Steeleye Span version of it is one of only three top 50 British hits to be sung fully in Latin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,854 ✭✭✭✭silverharp


    I heard this at a Christmas concert in Christ Church a couple of weeks back

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,519 ✭✭✭GalwayGrrrrrl


    http://https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy29mQfiavg

    Not sure if this counts as a carol exactly but it's a beautiful song about the arrival of Christ. Another favourite is Josephs lullaby.

    If I had to chose a classic I'd go with O Come Emmanuel.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,080 ✭✭✭lmaopml


    This is the song that is going through my head this year...It's a favourite for sure. Leonard Cohen's Hallelujah



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,573 ✭✭✭Nick Park


    I love 'Hark the Herald Angels Sing' due to its strong doctrinal statements. It really is the Gospel in song.

    But probably my favourite Christmas Carol is 'O Holy Night' due to its history. The words were originally written by a French atheist wineshop owner at the request of the local parish priest. Its lyrics were pretty anti-clerical, imagining how different the world would look if the Church had been more faithful to the ideal of Christ come in human flesh, rather than siding with political power and conservatism. This caused the song to be neglected due to official disapproval.

    But during the campaign in North America for the abolition of slavery, led mainly by committed Christians, the song was revived and turned into an anti-slavery anthem (the words 'the slave is my brother' fitted in very well with abolitionist rhetoric). It went on to become a hugely popular Christmas Carol to this day.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,209 ✭✭✭KatyMac


    Once in royal David's city


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,108 ✭✭✭Jellybaby1


    http://https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Gy29mQfiavg

    Not sure if this counts as a carol exactly but it's a beautiful song about the arrival of Christ. Another favourite is Josephs lullaby.

    If I had to chose a classic I'd go with O Come Emmanuel.


    No, I can't chose one Carol above another, it's too hard. But I watched the video above and loved it. Thanks for that.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Regional South East Moderators Posts: 12,527 Mod ✭✭✭✭byhookorbycrook


    I quite like the Wexford Carol
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDuESZKZ57Y

    And this one, with the Voice Squad
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDnWw6jQDtQ

    O Holy Night gets me every time as does Adeste sang in Latin.


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